"So, I could effectively place cards like this:
 X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X
Until I ran out of cards."

Actually, you cannot do that.  The rules state that it must be
adjacent and orthogonal.  So you have to do

  X
XPX
  X

And then you can go diagonally.  After that, you have to fill up the
slot of another planet..

XXX
XPX
XXX

  X
XP(newP)
  X

I don't own the game, but that's how I'd interpret the rules.

On Feb 2, 6:50 pm, Max Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> There is nothing stating I can only expand on the X axis so far, and
> the Y axis so far.  Of course, it's a much more pleasing board if I do
> something like
>
> X X X X
> X X X X
> X X X X
> X X X X
>
> I was wondering if the specific use of the word orthogonally, which in
> definitions I found said to place an object perpendicular to another,
> was stating an alternating placement pattern of X / Y axis or not.

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